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CEN/TS 16735:2015

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Postal services - Extensible Common Structure and Representation for Postal Rates - EPR

Postal services - Extensible Common Structure and Representation for Postal Rates - EPR

This Technical Specification defines a uniform structure and meaning for the information that fully represents postal rates for a broad variety of postal products in all mail categories. The postal rates definition is viewed as an important interface between posts and their customers and as such will benefit from standardization. Such representation of postal rates allows automated systems to uniformly use postal rates as they are introduced for new products or updated for existing postal products by postal operators. A postal rate file (PRF) is an XML document, which fully describes postal products rates. It contains all necessary and sufficient information for both postal operators and their customers to efficiently create, respectively acquire, update and process postal product rates. The structure, types and constraints of XML elements in an XML document are defined by an XML schema. The Extensible Postal Rates (EPR) schema is the XML schema that governs Postal Rate Files.
This Technical Specification contains a complete description of the EPR schema, its hierarchical structure, information types and semantics of its elements.
This Technical Specification neither defines nor constraints how postal rates are created by postal operators but rather provide a powerful and flexible tool that supports efficient rates definition, management and distribution.
This Technical Specification does not define communication protocols that can be used by posts to distribute postal rates files to their customers. Suitable communication protocols are typically well known and already standardized (for example: Web Services, File Transport Protocol, email, etc.). The standard also does not define valuation of postal products as applied by postal operators and their customers.

Postalische Dienstleistungen - Erweiterungsfähige gemeinsame Struktur und Repräsentation von Posttarifen - EPR

Services postaux - Structure commune extensible et représentation pour les tarifs postaux

Poštne storitve - Razširljiva skupna struktura in prestavitev poštnih tarif - EPR

Ta tehnična specifikacija določa enotno strukturo in pomen informacij, ki v celoti predstavljajo poštne tarife za široko paleto poštnih proizvodov v vseh poštnih kategorijah. Opredelitev poštnih tarif je pomemben vmesnik med poštnimi službami in njihovimi strankami, ki jim bo standardizacija koristila. Takšna predstavitev poštnih tarif omogoča avtomatiziranim sistemom enotno uporabo poštnih tarif, ko operaterji uvedejo nove ali posodobijo obstoječe poštne proizvode. Datoteka s poštnimi tarifami (PRF) je dokument XML, ki v celoti opisuje poštne tarife proizvodov. Vsebuje vse potrebne in zadostne podatke za poštne operaterje in njihove stranke, da lahko učinkovito ustvarjajo oziroma pridobijo, posodobijo ter obdelajo poštne tarife proizvodov. Strukturo, vrste in omejitve elementov XML v dokumentu XML opredeljuje shema XML. Shema EPR (Extensible Postal Rates) je shema XML, ki ureja datoteke poštnih tarif.
Ta tehnična specifikacija vsebuje popoln opis sheme EPR, njene hierarhične strukture, vrste informacij in semantike njenih elementov.
Ta tehnična specifikacija ne opredeljuje niti omejuje načina, kako operaterji ustvarjajo poštne tarife, ampak zagotavlja zmogljivo in prilagodljivo orodje, ki podpira učinkovito določanje, upravljanje ter distribucijo tarif.
Ta tehnična specifikacija ne definira komunikacijskih protokolov, ki jih lahko poštne službe uporabljajo za distribucijo datotek poštnih tarif svojim strankam. Primerni komunikacijski protokoli so praviloma dobro znani in že standardizirani (na primer: spletne storitve, FTP (File Transport Protocol), e-pošta itd.). Standard tudi ne opredeljuje vrednotenja poštnih proizvodov, ki ga uporabljajo poštni operaterji in njihove stranke.

General Information

Status
Published
Publication Date
17-Mar-2015
ICS
03.240 - Postal services
Technical Committee
CEN/TC 331 - Postal services
Drafting Committee
CEN/TC 331/WG 3 - Automatic identification of items - Addresses
Current Stage
9093 - Decision to confirm - Review Enquiry
Completion Date
11-Jun-2021
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST-TS CEN/TS 16735:2015
01-maj-2015
Poštne storitve - Razširljiva skupna struktura in prestavitev poštnih tarif - EPR
Postal services - Extensible Common Structure and Representation for Postal Rates -
EPR
Postalische Dienstleistungen - Erweiterungsfähige gemeinsame Struktur und
Repräsentation von Posttarifen - EPR
Services postaux - Structure commune extensible et représentation pour les tarifs
postaux
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TS 16735:2015
ICS:
03.240 Poštne storitve Postal services
SIST-TS CEN/TS 16735:2015 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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SIST-TS CEN/TS 16735:2015

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
CEN/TS 16735

SPÉCIFICATION TECHNIQUE

TECHNISCHE SPEZIFIKATION
March 2015
ICS 03.240
English Version
Postal services - Extensible Common Structure and
Representation for Postal Rates - EPR
Services postaux - Structure commune extensible et Postalische Dienstleistungen - Erweiterungsfähige
représentation pour les tarifs postaux gemeinsame Struktur und Repräsentation von Posttarifen -
EPR
This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 30 September 2014 for provisional application.

The period of validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to submit their
comments, particularly on the question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard.

CEN members are required to announce the existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for an EN and to make the CEN/TS available
promptly at national level in an appropriate form. It is permissible to keep conflicting national standards in force (in parallel to the CEN/TS)
until the final decision about the possible conversion of the CEN/TS into an EN is reached.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United
Kingdom.





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CEN/TS 16735:2015 (E)
Contents Page
Foreword .4
Introduction .5
1 Scope . 10
2 Normative references . 10
3 Terms and definitions . 10
4 Symbols and abbreviations . 13
5 General Concepts . 13
5.1 Extensible Common Structure and Representation for Postal Rates (EPR) . 13
5.2 Using EPR for design, communication and processing of Postal Rates . 18
5.3 Time . 18
6 EPR XML Schema . 19
6.1 Introduction . 19
6.2 Structure of EPR Type . 19
6.2.1 General . 19
6.2.2 EPR attributes .
...

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